Net-Clipping: An Approach to Deduce the Topology of Metal–Organic Frameworks Built with Zigzag Ligands

Autor: Inhar Imaz, Daniel Maspoch, Ali Morsali, Hosein Ghasempour, Judith Juanhuix, Borja Ortín-Rubio, Vincent Guillerm
Přispěvatelé: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), European Research Council, European Commission, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España)
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
ISSN: 1520-5126
0002-7863
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c03404
Popis: Herein we propose a new approach for deducing the topology of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) assembled from organic ligands of low symmetry, which we call net-clipping. It is based on the construction of nets by rational deconstruction of edge-transitive nets comprising higher-connected molecular building blocks (MBBs). We have applied net-clipping to predict the topologies of MOFs containing zigzag ligands. To this end, we derived 2-connected (2-c) zigzag ligands from 4-c square-like MBBs by first splitting the 4-c nodes into two 3-c nodes and then clipping their two diagonally connecting groups. We demonstrate that, when this approach is applied to the 17 edge-transitive nets containing square-like 4-c MBBs, net-clipping leads to generation of 10 nets with different underlying topologies. Moreover, we report that literature and experimental research corroborate successful implementation of our approach. As proof-of-concept, we employed net-clipping to form three new MOFs built with zigzag ligands, each of which exhibits the deduced topology.
This work was supported by the Spanish MINECO (project RTI2018-095622-B-I00), the Catalan AGAUR (project 2017 SGR 238), and the ERC under the EU-FP7 (ERC-Co 615954). It was also funded by the CERCA Program/Generalitat de Catalunya. ICN2 is supported by the Severo Ochoa program from the Spanish MINECO (Grant No. SEV-2017-0706).
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